genome-guided introspection

Mother Nature has been writing an NSFW blog in our genomes

Who knew? Reinius and colleagues have discovered where she’s kept it stashed away … in 85 brain-expressed genes they refer to as a conserved sexual signature … tsk tsk naughty. Ladies, you can skip over the parts about macho men with rippling muscles and power tools … ’cause apparently, what really turns Mother Nature on is polyamine biosynthesis.